Paul Weiss' Ted Wells Tapped by New Jersey Governor to Defend Tax Incentives Lawsuit
Wells, of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, is now opposing notable counsel representing the plaintiffs on the other side of the suit, including former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and former federal judge and New Jersey U.S. Attorney Herbert Stern.
May 23, 2019 at 07:21 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
The latest salvo in an escalating feud between New jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and South Jersey politico George Norcross over the awarding of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax incentives in the state—and who has benefited from those incentives—was fired Thursday.
The drama—involving competing task forces, and now competing legal teams made up of well-known lawyers—has engulfed Trenton.
Murphy on Thursday announced that he hired Ted Wells of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York as his administration's counsel in a lawsuit filed earlier in the week by Norcross and several companies over the independent investigation underway by a task force assembled by Murphy to investigate the New Jersey Economic Development Authority's tax incentives programs.
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